(CNN) - The NFL's warmup games are in full swing -- and the national anthem protests are back.

Several players on Thursday took a knee, raised a fist or did not take to the field while the anthem was played before a dozen games as the league's first full week of preseason contests kicked off.

he action comes weeks after the league suspended what was supposed to be a new policy barring such demonstrations.

The anthem protests -- meant to draw attention to racial injustice -- have happened with varying participation since 2016, pulling the NFL into a public debate that has seen President Donald Trump call on team owners to stem them.

In Philadelphia, Eagles defensive end Michael Bennett walked out of the tunnel Thursday during the anthem and headed to the team bench ahead of a game against the visiting Pittsburgh Steelers, the Philadelphia Daily News reported.

Henry Hudson's Pub has decided it will not purchase DIRECTV NFL Sunday Ticket to show football to patrons.

On it's Facebook page, the pub's owner Jim Adair notified its customers the decision was based on the division of the country over the issue of the National Anthem during games.

On the establishment's page Adair wrote:

"We fully support anyone's right to raise awareness for their issues and causes and believe that as sports celebrities they already have a large platform to do so. Far more than any other average American citizen. There is a time and place and the beginning of an entertainment show is not. During the National Anthem is not it. These are my beliefs."

He further writes:

"I do not make this decision lightly, I simply refuse to support very well paid athletes, kneeling during the National Anthem and the media that continues to make that its focus."

Republican state party official resigns after calling NFL kneelers "Baboons"

A Republican official has resigned a year after writing several racist Facebook posts targeting kneeling NFL players.

Carla Maloney was the Secretary of the Republican Committee of Beaver County in Pennsylvania when she criticized African American NFL players, calling them “baboons” and “over paid ignorant blacks”.

A Beaver Country Republican Committee official confirmed to the Beaver County Times that Maloney originally published the posts under the name Carla Belich Fueller before changing her name in 2015

In Maloney’s now-deleted post, she said that she was “tired of these over paid ignorant blacks telling me what I should believe in. I will tell you what I believe in and that is our Flag the National Anthem and America period end of story.”

Beto tried to call out Ted Cruz to debate him and now he refuses to debate when Cruz called his bluff, if you vote for a beta like Beto you are almost as cucked as a certain poster on this site who's name has slipped my memory.